Elisha Carpenter

Elisha Carpenter (January 14, 1824 – March 22, 1897) was a Connecticut attorney and politician who served as a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1866 to 1894.

Early life, education, and career Born in Ashford (in the portion which later became Eastford, Windham County, Connecticut), to Uriah B. Carpenter and Marcia Carpenter (née Scarborough), Carpenter's father was a farmer in moderate circumstances, but was much respected in the community, and entrusted with its most important public offices. Carpenter was his fourth son. He was brought up on his father's farm and divided his time between farm labor and study.

He was educated, by his own efforts,

Throughout his life, Carpenter was an active church member in the Congregational denomination, a teacher in its Sabbath schools, and for many years a deacon in the Asylum Hill Congregational Church. During his long tenure on the Supreme Court, Carpenter moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he remained for over twenty years.

Sometime around 1882, Carpenter suffered a shock of paralysis which left him with a permanent lameness, but from which he wholly recovered in all other respects. In January 1895, he slipped upon the ice and broke his hip, and had another fall in his room after he had begun to recover. He lived for two years after that, although he continued to suffer the effects of these injuries until his death on March 22, 1897. Carpenter's daughters survived him.